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The Promise and Peril of the Road Less Traveled
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps ...

This morning I unearthed my computer from its tomb at the bottom of my closet, and like any loved one that has been ignored for too long, it had some unkind words for me.
I thought it might have appreciated it’s first vacation in five years, maybe even run a bit ...

Though all of my week without challenges have been beneficial thus far, on the whole they have taken significant energy and constant attention to accomplish. This week, not so much.
Sure, the first day without social media was a bit weird, only because I would catch myself in the habit of mousing ...

“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” – Albert Einstein
As I expect will be the case with many of these Week Without Challenges, the lessons I learned during my week without meat ...

We recently posted "I've Gone 4 Days Without Coffee and I'm Still Alive." This is a follow-up to that piece
I’m sitting at my kitchen table in shorts, unshowered, unshaven, and a bit under-rested. Not that this is anything new, but one thing in particular is different this time. For the ...

Almost ten years after my first sip, I’ve gone four days without coffee–the longest since that very first taste.
It was sunny. I can’t say for sure, but far into the depths of my memory the days are almost always sunny, so I’m going to roll with it.
Nothing was particularly different ...

A good friend and coworker of mine grew up living inside the World’s Largest Badger. Really though, the badger/house was an attraction on his mother’s game farm in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, and his bedroom was approximately where the badger’s clavicle would be, were it a real badger. His family had ...

“No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.” — Fulke Greville
This past week I have done my best not to tell a single lie, in hopes of both rooting out the tiny white lies that slip into everyday conversation, and being fully honest with myself about…myself.
I covered my ...